bootlessness

  • 1Bootlessness — Bootless Boot less, a. [From {Boot} profit.] Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or success. Chaucer. [1913 Webster] I ll follow him no more with bootless prayers. Shak. [1913 Webster] {Boot less*ly}, adv. {Boot less*ness}, n.… …

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  • 2bootlessness — noun see bootless …

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  • 3bootlessness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The condition or quality of being useless or ineffective: fruitlessness, futility, unavailingness, unprofitableness, uselessness, vainness, vanity. See THRIVE, USED …

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  • 4bootlessness — boot·less·ness …

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  • 5bootlessness — noun see bootless …

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  • 6futility — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. uselessness, ineffectiveness, fruitlessness, falseness, hollowness, triviality, frivolity, idleness, vanity, emptiness, hopelessness, worthlessness, labor in vain, lost trouble, unprofitableness, purposelessness,… …

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  • 7bootless — adjective Etymology: 1boot Date: 1559 useless, unprofitable < a bootless attempt > • bootlessly adverb • bootlessness noun …

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  • 8bootless — bootlessly, adv. bootlessness, n. /booht lis/, adj. without result, gain, or advantage; unavailing; useless. [bef. 1000; ME bot(e)les, OE botleas unpardonable. See BOOT2, LESS] * * * …

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  • 9absurdity — Synonyms and related words: absurdness, act of folly, aimlessness, amphigory, anticness, babble, babblement, balderdash, bibble babble, bizarreness, bizarrerie, blabber, blather, blunder, bombast, bootlessness, claptrap, craziness, curiousness,&#8230; …

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  • 10emptiness — Synonyms and related words: absence, absence of mind, absurdity, acreage, aimlessness, angst, anguish, anxiety, appetite, area, aridity, bareness, barrenness, big deal, blankness, bleakness, bloodlessness, bootlessness, boredom, breadth, canine&#8230; …

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